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Personal Pronouns Ego, Tu, and Is: Demonstratives Is and Idem In order to spare you another dose of Gilbert and Sullivan, I give you the personal pronouns to the tune of The Twelve Days of Christmas: I: ego, mei Mihi, me, and then me You: tu and tui tibi, te, and then te Nos, nostrum/nostri Nobis, nos, and nobis Vos, vestrum/vestri Vobis, vos, vobis! Is, ea, id Eius, eius, eius Ei, ei, ei Eum, eam, id, and eo, ea, eo! These, of course, are seperate from the posessive adjectives - the ones you probably learned way back in chapter two. They didn't get a song then because they weren't featured then, but as they're being featured now, to the tune of The Cat Came Back: You use 'em for possession They are meus and noster Tuus and vester The adjectives You use 'em for posession 'Cause the genetive Just doesn't sound the same You have to remember for yourself, of course, that those are only the masculine versions I've used up there. And finally, there's our new demonstrative, idem. To the tune of If you're Happy and you Know it: Take the pronoun and just stick it on the end Except for 'idem' in the nominatives N's in single acc and genetives If you want to say 'the same' you add a 'dem' You're in charge of remembering that 'idem' is for male and neuter nominatives only - female is still 'eadem'. In the singular accusative and plural genetive, you use an 'n' on the end of the pronoun instead of an 'm'. I tried to indicate this in the song by pluralizing 'genetives', since I didn't have enough syllables. Hopefully that functions as a good enough mnemonic. |